Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-03
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A new memorial of Chaucer is to be
erected in Poets corner
The management of eight London
| theaters is in the hands Of women.
The electric light is now being used
in the Scotch fisheries with great sue
| cess.
Nine cables are used to tell the daily
story of Europe to America and Amer
lea to Europe.
A Texan at Throckmorton brought
an editor two wildcats to be credited
on his subscription.
A new republic, called the Republic
Of COunani, between Brazil and French
, Guiana, has been declared.
The house liz which Isaiah Colby
and his wife were murdered at Cherry
Run, Penn, is nearly cut to pieces by
relic hunters, and one of them has the
shoes taken from Colby after the muir
der on exhibition in his store in Lock
Haven
A horse with goggles was one of the
attractions of the Clinton square mar
ket-place in Boston the other day.
The animal was very near sighted,
and an oculist took the necessary
measurements, and, sending to New
York, had a pair of concave spectacles
made for him.
For sometime it was thought a ghost
had taken up its abode in Frey's mine,
near Brownville, Penn, and timorous
miners gave its quarters a wide berth.
1t was discovered that bull calf with
long chain on it's neck had wandered
in there to get away from the flies and
was unable to find its way out.
A traveller in looking through an
open-air book stall the other day at
Toxic, Japan, came across japanese
versions of "a Dead Secret" sMiss
Christabel," lies Miserables," LIE
Maitre de Forge" s'Serge Panine,"
''Monte Cristo," and a brave but I'M
fortunate metrical translation of some
OF Tennyson's and Browning's poems.
A young man at Champaign, ILL.,,
got up while asleep, went out through
a window, breaking the wire screen,
and onto the roof of porch, from
which he fell to the ground, a distance
of twelve feet, alighting upon his
hands and knees. Strange to relate,
the fall did not awaken him, and his
slumber was unbroken for an hour
afterward.
Jacob Moors, of Ionia, Mich, boasts
he can show an apple that is 40 years
old, and that the orchard in which it
grew has been entirely obliterated.
1t grew down in Lancaster county,
Penn, and was probably one of those
gnarly little things that are harder
than Pharaohs heart and were often
used as bullets by the early settlers in
times when lead was scarce
The latest scheme to swindle farm
ers is being perpetrated under the
guise of so-called society to prevent
the killing of birds. A man invadcs
the rural home, talks glibly about the
good being done for the farmer by the
birds, and ends by asking him to sign
pledge not to kill bird in twelve
months. The pledges, with a little
manipulation, turn up in the way of
a promissory note and make trouble.
A Pittsfeld, ILL.,, man has manu-
wheels. With this he will go through
the country gathering the cream, and
when he has secured the proper quanti-
ty return home. He will hitch on the
churning gear, and as he drives along
the churning will go on as the wagon
goes along, and when he arrives
there will be nothing to do but take
out the butter and draw off the but
termilk.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor & Cadillac
railroad company offered an Irishman
$500 for his three-years' lease and of
fered to move his cabin to any place
he might designate, having bought the
land on which it stood. Pat accepted
the offer and took the money, but
when the men came on to move the
cabin and asked the Hibernian where to
move it, he said ''to Oireland. They
thought it was a joke, but Pat holds
the fort and has the $500.
A quaint old locomotive has just
been assigned to duty by the Illinois
Central railroad company on the LIE
Roy g. West Lebanon line. 1t has one
pair of wheels and two truck wheels,
making only four wheels all told I'M
der the curious little machine. 1t
weighs, with the tender and all equip
ments, less than ten tons. Twenty
two years ago it was stored away at
Dubuque as useless, but the present
rush of business has created neces-
sity for again pressing it into the SER
vice. Some of the old-timers in rail-
reading may remember it as the ''Vix-
en-"
On S. n. Walkers truck farm, near
Brunswick, was an Indian mound
some four or five feet high and several
feet in circumference, which the own
er concluded to level away, so that he
could plant and cultivate the ground.
The center he found to contain about
one hundred bushels of oyster shells,
and on one side was found the skeleton
of some very large person. The skull
was unusually large and very thick, and
the thigh bones very long, showing the
original to have been man Of power
full frame, evidently an Indian. Some
| pottery was also found.
While freight train on the Florida
Railway & Navigation company was
| passing through swamp near Gains
vile bear from the adjoining woods
decided to make an exploring eXpedl-